"I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging."

-- Whit Stillman

#People Quotes #Clinging Quotes

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”

Source : 1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.
“Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.”
“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”
“An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.”
“We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,”
“My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.”

Source : "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.
“Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.”
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?”

Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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